Japan’s employees are literally working themselves to death

The Japanese might be the hardest working people in the world. Employees there sleep less, and work longer hours, than almost anywhere else. The culture is so rigorous that there's a word for literally working yourself to death: karoshi. That might be good if you're an employer trying to make a deadline or cut costs. But it's bad […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/01/14/japans-employees-are-literally-working-themselves-to-death/